-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show > the packages on hold that would have been upgraded > but were held back. On lenny this no longer happens.
'aptitude safe-upgrade' will upgrade safely, and will sometimes hold back packages. 'aptitude dist-upgrade' will not. I think upgrade now goes to safe-upgrade. > How do I get a list of those packages, and only those > packages, that would be upgraded if they were not on hold? > > FYI I want this mostly because I have too many systems > to apply security updates to manually. So I've a cron > job that regularly does updates from the security team > repository. However I do not want critical packages, > e.g. the kernel, upgraded by an automatic process. > I put the packages I want to manually review on hold. > I rely on the output from the cron jobs to notify me > when there are updates available for such packages. > Unlike, say the security-announce email list, the > cron jobs keep emailing me until I apply the latest > upgrades. I can miss an email on occasion and not have > to worry about missing an irreplaceable message. > > Thank you. > > Karl <k...@meme.com> > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > -- Robert A. Heinlein > > - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C++++ UL++++ P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D---- G e* h! !r y? - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkotTQAACgkQ1kZz3mRu0GqbDQCfaolYebAq1zjkiY8DYVOVJ1jD Hj0AoIr8gmSgRzi5HB8e5Sjycck1pA2x =ZM8j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org